An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

I consider myself as a freewheeling bisexual

Cassandra Clare

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Richard Milhous Nixon

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

Samuel Johnson

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Oscar Wilde

Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.

Bryan Waller Proctor

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.

Joseph Sugarman

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Andrew Marvell

Come on, insisted Zaphod, I've found a way in.In? said Arthur in horror.Into the interior of the planet! An underground passage. The force of the whale's impact cracked it open, and that's where we have to go. Where no man has trod these five million years, into the very depths of time itself ...Marvin started his ironical humming again.Zaphod hit him and he shut up.With little shudders of disgust they all followed Zaphod down the incline into the crater, trying very hard not to look at its unfortunate creator.Life, said Marvin dolefully, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it.

Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hikers

You want to know what I want? I'm sick of being a guinea pig. I'm sick, but I'm never f*cking sick enough for this family.

Jodi Picoult

Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.

Voltaire

All things need watching, working at, caring for and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be treated indifferently, or abused or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention care and concern and especially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.

Richard L. Evans

But the princess had never seen the beautiful expression of her eyes; the expression that came into them when she was not thinking of herself. As is the case with everyone, her face assumed an affected, unnatural, ugly expression as soon as she looked in the looking glass.

Leo Tolstoy